Workmen installing the first aluminum panel

1951

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Workmen installing the first aluminum panel
  • Title
  • Workmen installing the first aluminum panel
  • Creator
  • Newman-Schmidt Studios
  • Date
  • 1951
  • Identifier
  • 2001.47.4.2
  • Source Identifier
  • Carnegie Museum of Art 2001.47.4.2
  • Description
  • Construction workers hoist up the first prefabricated aluminum sheet during the construction of the Alcoa Building in downtown Pittsburgh. The entire exterior wall of the building was built using these panels that contained both windows and the floor zone. The specially designed windows opened in special inflatable rubber gaskets containing neoprene that minimized heat from the sun's rays, and also required minimal cleaning and maintenance on the exterior. Construction of the Alcoa Building began in 1951 and was completed in 1953.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Alcoa Building (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Construction workers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Buildings--Design and construction--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Downtown (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Men--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Carnegie Museum of Art Collection of Photographs, 1894-1958
  • Contributor
  • Carnegie Museum of Art
  • Collection
  • Carnegie Museum of Art Collection of Photographs
  • Rights Information
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